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Pallavi Phartiyal, senior analyst and program manager, Center for Science and Democracy

April 25, 2016 12:27 PM EDT

Have you ever caught yourself daydreaming at the lab bench, in the tissue culture hood, at your Excel spreadsheet, wondering how your science and data would be relevant to the world outside your academic confines? There’s no shame in acknowledging this. Read more >

My class on California’s water crisis finished a few minutes early last week. I immediately rushed over to Duke University’s Bryan Center, hoping to still grab a bit of food before Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish, began his talk. I managed to scoop up two appetizers before I headed into the theatre. Read more >

Who owns the tropical forests? Till recently, the answer has traditionally been “governments,” at least in formal legal terms. But a quiet revolution in forest land tenure has been going on in several countries over the last few decades, resulting in the traditional land claims of forest communities being recognized, not just in law but also in fact. This change, due to struggles by Indigenous Peoples and their allies, has resulted in large-scale changes in tropical forest land tenure, and ironically, could also bring substantial income to tropical governments too.